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Compare some of the features that have been added to MYOB Business
Management Software since 2003.

Features introduced since 2003 v13 v14 v15 v16 v17 v18
Sales
Email quotes, invoices, orders ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Create convertible quotes, orders and invoices ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
New Sales Register ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
M-Powered Invoices: Bpay , credit card by phone/internet
®
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Bill both time and items on a single invoice ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Include headers & subtotal lines on invoices ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Automatically adjust tax amounts by creating an adjusting invoice when
an early payment discount is given
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Process customer payments faster by selecting a Receive All customer
payment in Receive Payments
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Select from the five alternative email addresses when sending a customer
an email
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
M-Powered Bank Statements ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Emailing customer statements ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Set and edit a default message for invoices and statements ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Batch emailing of invoices & statements ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to create a Purchase order directly from a Sales Order or Sales Quote ✓ ✓
Option to include sales invoices up to and including the statement date only
on Invoice Statements
✓
Option to have invoices broken down into invoice amount, credits and
payments applied on Invoice Statements
✓

Purchases
Create convertible quotes, orders and bills ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
New Purchases Register ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Include headers & subtotal lines on bill ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
M-Powered Payments ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Batch emailing of bills ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Set and edit a default email message for bills ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Batch emailing of remittance advices ✓ ✓
Set and edit default email messages for remittance advices ✓ ✓
Remittance Advice now itemises information into Invoice Amount, Discount,
Prior Payments and Current Payments
✓

PM7339/0708
 Recent versions compared

Compare some of the features that have been added to MYOB Business
Management Software since 2003.

Features introduced since 2003 v13 v14 v15 v16 v17 v18
Banking
Automated bank reconciliation - import bank statements ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Easily enter all cash-related transactions in one Bank Register window ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Enter a 255 character memo on each line in Spend Money & Receive Money ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Review the Get Statement log for more information about transactions that
were skipped
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
While importing a bank statement drill down via the Match Transaction to fix
any typographical errors
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Enter credit card fees via the Bank Deposit Window ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to make electronic payments from multiple bank accounts ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Default statement text for electronic payment transactions ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to undo a previous months bank reconciliation ✓ ✓
Facility to edit the Date, Bank Account and Memo in Receive Payment and
Pay Bills window
✓

Inventory
Recall, edit, reverse & delete inventory adjustments & transfers ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Use the Items Register Detail report to print a list of sales, purchases &
inventory transactions that have been recorded for an item during a particular ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
month, along with a running balance of its value and quantity
Recall the on-hand balance and value of an item as at any date or view a list
of the sales, purchases and inventory transactions that have been made for an ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
item within a certain period
Ability to store a standard buying price for an inventoried item ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to receive items into stock before receiving the purchase bill ✓ ✓ ✓

Payroll (MYOB Accounting Plus and MYOB Premier)

M-Powered Superannuation & Related Reporting ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Pay Employee window replaced with Process Payroll: to allow Batch
Processing of pay cheques
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to allow multiple jobs to a pay cheque ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Standard Pay functionality replaces Recurring Pay cheques ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to Pay Leave in Advance with the PAYG being calculated correctly ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to assign multiple jobs to a pay cheque ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
SuperChoice Ready: Multiple Super funds, default company super fund &
super choice forms
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Timesheets ✓ ✓ ✓
Save As facility for Payment Summaries to save as a PDF ✓ ✓ ✓

PM7339/0708
 Recent versions compared

Compare some of the features that have been added to MYOB Business
Management Software since 2003.

Features introduced since 2003 v13 v14 v15 v16 v17 v18
Payroll (MYOB Accounting Plus and MYOB Premier)
YTD figures on payroll advices as of Report Date not System Date ✓ ✓ ✓
Easier Payroll Liability Payment functionality & Reporting Facilities ✓ ✓ ✓
2006/2007 Design of the Individual Non-Business Payment Summary ✓ ✓ ✓
Payroll Verification Report allowing pay cheques to be viewed before
they are printed
✓ ✓
Ability to email Pay Slips ✓
Enhancement of leave reporting and the ability to track when leave was taken ✓
Option to retain the previous year’s payroll information for reporting purposes ✓
Payroll Tax calculation available for a single state. ✓
Warning message for incorrect PAYG Withholding scales loaded ✓
Ability to generate and ETP Payment summary in the Print Payment Summary
process
✓
Payment summary verification report included in Print Payment Summaries ✓

Accounts
Prepare BAS with the improved BASlink feature ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Enter a 255 character memo on each line in General Journal ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Introduction of the Company Data Auditor ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to send audit reports to the accountant via the Send Accountant
process
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to merge accounts (same type ONLY) ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to enter future year budgets ✓ ✓ ✓
Annual BAS ✓ ✓ ✓
Fuel Tax Credits for BAS ✓ ✓ ✓

Time Billing (MYOB Accounting Plus, MYOB Premier and MYOB Premier Enterprise
Ability to use Activity Slips for Time Billing & Payroll ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Timesheets (in conjunction with Payroll) ✓ ✓ ✓

Reports
Email reports ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Easily prepare reports that support the Simplified Tax System (STS) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Drill down from the Balance Sheet & Profit & Loss Reports to the Find
Transaction window
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

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Management Software since 2003.

Features introduced since 2003 v13 v14 v15 v16 v17 v18
Reports
Drag report columns into new positions or re-size columns by dragging to
the desired width. Column headers are visible at all times and edit the reports’ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
date filter directly from within Report Display
Introduction of a Inventory Value Reconciliation report: to quickly check that
the Items List reconciles with the linked inventory accounts
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Reporting on department by categories ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to filter the Transaction Journal by journal ID ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to add favourite reports to the Reports menu ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Linked Accounts Report ✓ ✓ ✓
Receivables Summary with Tax & Payables Summary with Tax report ✓ ✓ ✓
Transaction Tax Code report transactions grouped by account number ✓ ✓
Saving reports saves all selections including the report date range ✓

Card File
Enter details in up to five address fields per customer, with additional fields for
email and phone
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Card file is integrated with jobs function to track reimbursable items by job ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Multiple Bank Accounts for Employees ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
*Enhanced Payroll Details tab introduced with Employee Cards ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
*Employee Card: Stored a definable Withholding Variation Tax Scale ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
*Employee Card: Stored an employment classification ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
*Employee Card: Stored a template Standard Pay for each employee ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to merge cards (same type ONLY) ✓ ✓ ✓
Employment Category field available with the Payroll Details tab on an
employee card
✓ ✓
Employment Status field available with the Payroll Details tab on an
employee card
✓ ✓
Ability to record reason for Termination on an employee card with the
Payroll Details tab
✓ ✓

* Accounting Plus and Premier ONLY

Preferences
Select accounts by name or number ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Check for duplicate Customer Purchase Order numbers or Supplier Invoice
numbers
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Password protect the contact log to prevent others from seeing sensitive
information
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Introduction of Audit Trial Tracking ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

PM7339/0708
 Recent versions compared

Compare some of the features that have been added to MYOB Business
Management Software since 2003.

Features introduced since 2003 v13 v14 v15 v16 v17 v18
Preferences
User accounts introduced to replace the use of a password only as a security
measure
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to Lock Periods by a date, rather than month ✓ ✓
Ability to restrict access to employee cards and contact log information via
security profiles in the Preferences
✓

Exporting & Importing

Jobs ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Supplier and Customer Payments ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Budgets ✓ ✓ ✓
Timesheets ✓ ✓ ✓
Inventory Adjustments ✓ ✓ ✓
Employee Payroll Details ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to export and import custom lists & contact logs ✓ ✓

Usability
Call up a built-in calculator and calendar ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Introduction of Categories ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Right Mouse click ability with windows ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Customise Form: addition of grid lines & ability to snap to grid lines ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Customise Form: ability to insert & remove fields via a drop down menu ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Customise Form: ability to add borders, colours and watermarks ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Customise Form: easier to add & delete columns ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Job ID field expanded from 5 characters to 15 characters ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Recurring Transactions: Scheduling functionality, ability to enter and hold
specific ID’s, ability to set alerts and also automatic recording of transactions
✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ability to retain closed transactions for a selected year when rolling
over a financial year
✓ ✓ ✓
Support for Operating Systems - Windows 98, Windows ME, OS 10.1
and OS 10.28 ceases
✓ ✓
Search By capabilitiy with the Recurring Transactions window ✓ ✓
Print Preview available for Purchases, Sales, Pay Bills and Spend Money ✓
Ability to search on more attributes, and results displayed only upon a criteria
match
✓
Spell Check available for Enter Sales and Enter Purchases ✓

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